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Phase Transitions

Thermal Fluctuations Boltzmann Distribution First-Order Melting Transition Out-of-Equilibrium Systems Superfluidity Supercritical State Hybrid States Nucleation Amorphous Materials Crystallization

Experiments Reveal Hidden Critical Point in Supercooled Water

The finding offers a framework to explain water’s odd behavior.

Ultrafast X-Rays Reveal Elusive Critical Point in Supercooled Water

Scientists 3D-Print Intricate Ice Tree Using Vacuum-Driven Evaporative Cooling

Electric-Field Defrosting Removes Up to 75% of Frost, Virginia Tech Study Finds

Microsecond X-Rays Reveal Ice XXI, a New High-Pressure Form of Ice

TU Wien Explains Why Silver Iodide Works Only Sometimes in Cloud Seeding

Study Shows Dry Ice Blocks Carve Mars' Sinuous Dune Gullies

Water’s ‘Premelting’ Phase Directly Observed in Nanopores

Dipole Interactions, Not Melting, Explain Why Ice Is Slippery

Simulations Point to Carbon as Trigger for Earth’s Inner-Core Formation

Simulations Pin Ice’s Slipperiness on Dipoles, Not Pressure or Friction

Engineered Metal Surface Uses Meltwater and Surface Tension to Self-Propel Ice Discs

Lab Simulations Show Trapped Vapor Cracks Ice to Propel Cryovolcanism on Europa and Enceladus

Gold Superheated to 14 Times Its Melting Point, Overturning Entropy Catastrophe Limit

Study Reveals Hidden Nano-Crystals in Space Ice

Scientists Create Supersolid from Light in Groundbreaking Experiment

Scientists Create Plastic Ice VII, a Unique Hybrid Phase of Water

Physicists Achieve One-Dimensional Gas State Using Light